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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Banana Heart Summer : A Novel
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  • Epigraph: Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. The Dalai Lama.

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    • Millers Point, Sydney City, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pier 9 , 2005 .
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      Extent: 266p.
      ISBN: 1740455908
    • Pasig City, Manila,
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      Philippines,
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      Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,      :       Anvil Publishing ,       2005 .
      Extent: 253p.
      ISBN: 9712717313 (bp), 9712717399 (np)
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Merlinda Bobis's 'Banana Heart Summer' : Recipes to Work through Trauma and Appease the Human Heart's Everlasting Hunger M. Dolores Herrero , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 32 no. 1-2 2010; (p. 194-208) Banana Heart Summer (2005) is a truly original novel. What at first seems to be a collection of exotic recipes turns out to be a touching, funny and elegiac story. The myth of the banana heart inspires twelve-year-old Nenita, who will try to find the perfect balance between love and anger, to appease her family's hunger and, which is even more important, to win her violent mother's love. As she cooks and eats, or dreams of cooking and eating, other love stories unravel in Remedios Street, the street she lives in, significantly placed between an active volcano and a Catholic church. In this paper I analyse the way in which the different symbols that the novel uses, food being one of the most important, contribute to giving it a most original and coherent structure, and also draw the reader's attention towards some of the most outstanding messages that the novel seems to put forward, namely, the need for love and dialogue between different individuals and cultures, and for a multicultural and rather more cohesive model to be advocated in contemporary societies. [from Kunapipi 32,1-2, Abstracts, pp. 242-243]
The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story Merlinda Bobis , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 25 no. 3 2010; (p. 1-19) 'This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate.
And once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 3)
'Voice-Niche-Brand' : Marketing Asian-Australianness Merlinda Bobis , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 45 2008;
Food, Precious Food : Migrating the Palate. Merlinda Bobis , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 28 no. 2 2006; (p. 10-17)
Merlin is a Woman Sylvia L. Mayuga , 2006 single work criticism
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Untitled Eliza Metcalfe , 2005 single work review
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Fiction Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
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Merlin is a Woman Sylvia L. Mayuga , 2006 single work criticism
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Food, Precious Food : Migrating the Palate. Merlinda Bobis , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 28 no. 2 2006; (p. 10-17)
'Voice-Niche-Brand' : Marketing Asian-Australianness Merlinda Bobis , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 45 2008;
The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story Merlinda Bobis , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 25 no. 3 2010; (p. 1-19) 'This essay develops on the premise of imagining, which is the heart of story-making: imagine the physicality of story. Imagine the deployment strategies, the covert 'translations' of difference' that facilitate the entry of the Other story through the gate.
And once inside, imagine how this Otherness is legitimised, packaged and consumed within the Australian nation.' (p. 3)
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